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PATENTED OCT. 13, 1903.

W. G. WEFEL.

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ll'ivrrnn STATES Patented October 13, 1903.

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WILLIAM C. WVEFEL, OF MILIVAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE E. HEINEMANN, DAVID JENNER, AND ALBERT HEINEMANN, COPARTNERS DOING BUSINESS AS GEORGE II. HEINEMANN dz COMPANY, OF MILWAU' KEE, WISCONSIN.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 741,424, dated October 13, 1903 Application filed October 3, 1902. Serial No. 125,795. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. WEFEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Double-Reinforcing Thumbs for Gloves and Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in to gloves and mittens.

The object of my invention is to provide a form of construction in which the seams of the thumb will all be on the sides or back, leaving a smooth bearing-surface on the inside of the thumb; also, to provide a form of construction in which a double thickness of the material composes the portions of the thumb most exposed to wear, whereby the durability of the glove is greatly increased.

In the following description reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the front or inner face of the glove embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the thumb drawn on lineman of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail illustrating the manner in which the material composing the thumb is cut and lapped together preparatory to folding the same; and Fig. l is a detail illustrating the form of aperture in the face of the glove through which the thumb is inserted preparatory to attaching the same.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views. The hand or palm portion 1 of the glove'or mitten is cut away to form an aperture, the shape of which is shown at 2 in Fig. 4- The material of which the thumb is composed consists of two parts 3 and 4, Fig. 3, each of which is provided with notches 5 and 6 and lapped together, as shown in said figure. The overlapping portions of the parts 3 and 4 are secured together by stitching or any other suitable means, whereupon the parts 4,5 are folded upon each other, and the outer edges K K are stitched together to form the thumb. The thumb is then inserted from the inside'of the glove through the aperture 2, when the edge a of the part 4 is lapped over the inner face of the hand portion 1 and stitched thereto, as indicated at a in Fig. 1. The edge Z) of the part 3 is secured to the hand portion 1 by stitching, (indicated at Z) in Fig. 1.)

With the above-described construction it will be observed that the edges d and e of the overlapping parts composing the thumb occupy positions at the sides of the thumb when the latter is fully formed, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, while the outer edges of the flaps 3 and 4 are secured together at theback of the thumb, leaving a smooth bearing-face L, composed of two thicknesses of material. The part between the line of stitching a and the adjacent edge of the aperture 2 is also composed of two thicknesses of material, these being the parts of the gloveor mitten which are most exposed to wear.

While I have shown and described the respective edges of the overlapping parts of the ball of the thumb stitched together at both edges, it will be understood thatit is not necessary in all cases to stitch the interior edge of the overlapping parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the described class, a thumb formed of overlapping parts extending to the extreme upper end of the thumb and provided at such upper end with V- shaped notches registering with each other, said overlapping parts being folded upon each other and stitched together along their outer edges and at their extreme upper ends above the ball of the thumb only, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a device of the described class, the combination with an apertured palm; of a thumb formed in two sections, said sections In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM C. WEFEL.

being provided with V-shaped notches and adapted to overlap on the ball portion of the thumb and being secured together in the'rear and at the tip, said sections being formed to 5 lap underneath the edges of the aperture in Witnesses:

the palm and secured to the inner surface of JAS. B. ERWIN, the palm.

G. L. RoEscH. 

